More Work on the Tiller

The first thing this morning after breakfast was a little bit of news and then a quick check in house two and house six.

These feathers were on the lawn west of the garage and under the Pink Flamingo tree.  

They weren't there the last time I checked last night.  A free range dog had nearly caught one of our hens.  All of our chickens were accounted far.  One of the hens was missing a few tail feather.  They are in the above picture.

Some of the tomato plants are not doing very good.  We have had aphids on the cabbage and kale plants.  Now they are on some of the tomato plants.  I mixed up a batch of Neem oil and sprayed most of the tomato plants on both sides.

Richard worked nearly four hours on the tiller yesterday.  He had a few ideas that would help it to run better.  He worked on it for nearly two hours today.  He bought some rubber tubing and replace the fuel line.  He has removed, cleaned, and put back together and installed.  It is all back together.  The rpm is up and down.  I thought that I would do a little tilling, but didn't get it done.

I had another five flavored berry seed that germinated.  On the left is one that is about ready to shed its seed coat.  The one on the right is the new seed.

I put up two more cow panels this afternoon.  The dados in the 2x6 were in the wrongg place and didn't match those that I did last week.  I held the panel in place with pieces of wood screwed the wood into the 2x6.

I stood the panel on its edge.  I tied some twine on one end and then to the other end and pulled both ends together.  I then moved it next the other three panels put up last year.  

The above photo shows that they didn't match together.

I moved them around a little and lifted one up and removed some of the soil under the 2x6.  I then wired them together with tie wire.

The potatoes are coming up now.  The potatoes in the photo were not covered.  I guess I forgot.  I plan to cover them with compost.  We will see what happens.

Lastly, the pea vines are beginning to bloom.  They are about eighteen inches tall.


Comments and questions are welcome.

Was the Gasoline Spiked

I made an appointment with Jeff Christenson yesterday to meet me at Alisha's house at nine this morning.  He was there right on time.  We walked around the yard and talked about the things that needed to be done.  I was there about a half hour.  I was going to trim around the raised beds and also apply round-up in some of the beds and under the fence on the west and north sides.  He would mow every week and then every ten days and then every other week.  Jeff spoke to her mother and arranged for payment and explained how often.

I took this picture of the tomato plant in house two that is loaded with what I call Purple Cherry.  I had several plants last year and saved them for this year with rooted cuttings.

After I got back from Alisha's house, we drove to the cemetery to get the Chrysanthemums that decorated Sierras grave.  We planted them in the berm west of our driveway.  That turned out to be a large job.

The drip line had a hole which I think that I made cutting weeds with a shovel.  I cut a piece out but could not find a coupler to hook them back together.  I finally put in a Tee and added another drip line.  There is an emitter every twelve inches.  I put in a new pressure regulator.  When I turned the water on, the water began to spray out through a crack in the drip line.   I took it off and put another, but longer piece.  When I turned the water back on it worked perfectly.

I took a photo of the tree spade.  I want to put it up for sale on Deseret News Classified.

This afternoon I met Clair Harmon and again at Alisha's house.  He had his big tractor there and he pulled up three small Siberian Elm trees.  We loaded his truck with the branches.  I was there for a little over an hour.

Richard Darnel came over to help me start my tiller.  It was around one this  afternoon. He worked on it for over three hours.  He had to drive Fillmore for supplies to help clean the carburetor.

When if got back, he was still working.  He remove the gas tank, the carburetor and a bunch of other parts.  Then put it back together.  He removed the carburetor several times. There was something in the gas tank that had prevented the gas from getting to the carburetor  After giving it some thought, it looked like someone put sugar or something in the tank.

This quart bottle contains the gas that was drained out of the gas tank.  It also contains some of the gas used to rinse the tank.  The bottom fourth is the gook from the gas tank.  It is a darker tan.

I did a little tomato pruning.

Questions and comments are welcome.

What Was I Thinking

Had breakfast and watched some of the news.  Carol has an appointment with Dr. Gross at 10:15 this morning.  I paid a few bills on line and prepared a deposit.  I couldn't start my weed eater so in put it in the car would not forget it.  We then drove to Fillmore for her appointment.  She went into the Dr.'s office I then left to take care of my business.  The first stop was at Penny's to have my weed eater fixed.  He was with another customer so I had to wait for ten to fifteen minutes.  He took it and gave the rope one pull and it started right up.  Several times earlier I pult the crank rope until my arm was tired and it would not start

There is and off on switch which is always in the on position.  To stop it, you push the switch to the off position and the engine stops.  I think that sometimes it sticks to the off position.  He made a few adjustments and was working really well.

I then went to the credit union where I made a deposit.  The next stop was at Zion's Bank where I made an interest and principle payment.  I then went back to the Dr.'s office.  Carol was still waiting. It was after eleven after she had seen the doctor.  We then went the market for some groceries and then to the Service Drugstore for some medication.  She also bought some birthday cards.  We then came home.  After a quick lunch. I shredded more papers.

My shredder was nearly full.  I shredded a few other papers and put them around some tomato plants that I planted a couple of days ago.  It is my desire that the weeds will not grow through the layer of shreds.

While I was waiting I read from the Better Home and Garden magazine.  There were some recipies using rhubarb.   I took a picture, but it is not legible.

I also took a picture of this small side table.  I have a lot of tile pieces that I could use if I made a similar table.

This little magazine shelf which hangs on the wall would be handy for current magazines that we have.

I got the weed eater going and cut the weeds along the road south of the street from the east to the west.

The copper rose on the west side of our yard looks and smells good.

 Another photo of the yellow copper rose

I started to dig a lot of weeds.  I was not able to spray them because if has been so wet all of the time.

There were some shrubs and a dead elderberry bush that I needed to remove.  The almond tree had several dead limbs that was in my way.  I cut two honey suckle shrubs at ground level and painted the cut edges with round-up. I also cut down wild rose bush.  I brought over the shredder pointed in the west direction.  I turned on the ignition switch and pulled the crank rope and it started on the first pull.

Late this evening I planted a bunch of eggplants in house six.  The photo is somewhat clouded.  I don't know why.


Comments and questions are welcome.

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